{"id":7626,"date":"2018-08-07T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2018-08-07T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:48:03","slug":"minor-earthquake-swarm-in-katla-volcano-ongoing-glacier-flood-from-myrdalsjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7626","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake swarm in Katla volcano, ongoing glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (7-august-2018) a minor earthquake swarm took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372030\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katla<\/a> volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of 2,9 and other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180807_1555.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180807_1555.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180807_1555.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180807_1555-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is also a glacier flood coming from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. This has resulted in dangerous levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrogen_sulfide\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hydrogen sulfide<\/a> gases close to M\u00falakv\u00edsl glacier river and the police has asked people not to stop in the area due to a risk of gas build up. The Hydrogen sulfide is at lethal levels in some areas where wind cannot move it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. It helps me to keep everything going. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (7-august-2018) a minor earthquake swarm took place in Katla volcano. Largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of 2,9 and other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude. Earthquake activity in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office. There is also a glacier flood coming from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. This has resulted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor earthquake swarm in Katla volcano, ongoing glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,5,64,40,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-glacier-flood","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}